Side Hustle Scorecard for March 6-12

By Jason Brauncowski

on Mar 16, 2023

As I write this, I am feeling utter annoyance with Squarespace’s blog interface. I can’t even put in a full line of type without things going wonky. I restarted Chrome. When that didn’t work, I restarted my Mac. Still shitty.

So now I am composing this post in Google docs and praying that I can copy and paste it into my blog chunk by chunk. I guess if you’re reading this, I was successful.

Also, if you’re reading this, I want you to know that Squarespace blows. I’ll be jumping ship as soon as my subscription ends this fall. It will be a real pain to port things over to Shopify, but that will work better for me in the long run at a similar price.

Anyhoo…

I’m super late in posting this accountability blog (through no fault of Squarespace’s) because I’ve ironically been busy playing video games.

On Monday I finished a big painting and thought I deserved a little downtime to just kill some pixelated zombies. Which I do, and I did. But three days is excessive.

So here I am with my hat in my hand, begging for your forgiveness.

Or something.

My side-hustlin’ accomplishments this week were:

Finishing the aforementioned painting and posting a video of the process on my YouTube channel (video and blog post to come here soon);
Continuing to post short-form videos to increase my skills. They’re not getting many views, but just like my 100 daily wins, the technical skills are worthwhile;
I found out that I was accepted as a vendor to the Milwaukee Makers Market to be held at Discovery World Museum on Sunday, August 13;
Despite my reluctance to take on new commissions during this season of my career, I knocked out a quick one for a great client who pays well (and quickly). That’s a little more money to offset my fancy camera purchase since I have yet to sell any of my dad’s antique firearms, and;
I added rim lighting to my YouTube studio setup to help improve the quality of my talking head videos. Janelle hates the aesthetics of having a big bar running from wall to wall in my office, but none of that is within view of the camera.